June 11, 2024
On June 29 and 30, South Bend, Indiana will host an unprecedented event of major importance in the history of Catholic arts in the United States: a new full-length classical ballet production with a new story, new music, new sets and costumes, and a cast of approximately 50 nationally-renowned dancers. The fairy-tale ballet, “Raphaella,” was created by husband-and-wife team Duncan and Ruth Stroik in memory of their daughter, Raphaella Maria Stroik, a dancer with the Saint Louis Ballet who tragically died in 2018 at age 23.
In the first part, Tomas Milas interviews impresario Duncan Stroik about the ballet as a whole and the process of creating such a large-scale work, while in the second he interviews composer Michael Kreck and choreographer Claire Kretschmer about the collaboration between music and dance and the differences between classical and modern ballet.
Link
Raffaella Tickets https://raffaellaballet.org/
Check out the rehearsal video on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/raffaella.ballet/
Michael Kurek https://michaelkurek.com/
Claire Kretzschmar at Ballet Hartford https://www.valleyhartford.com/
Duncan Stroik https://www.stroik.com/
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